Australian TV presenter Mylee Hogan demoted after backlash over 'Glenn McGrath died' prank

An awkward situation occurred on-air inside the studio of Channel 7’s Sunrise after newly-assigned host Mylee Hogan cracked a bizarre joke involving Australia’s legendary Glenn McGrath some days ago. The incident, which took place on 29 December, had a huge impact on Hogan’s reputation making the anchor lose her place at the studio desk.

Hogan came up with the bizarre gig following a recent TikTok trend. The platform was seeing a number of hilarious videos in which children and teenagers were pulling out hilarious pranks on their parents by telling them that their favourite celebrities were dead even though the news was entirely fake.

After talking about the TikTok segment, fellow host Mark Beretta had just started to introduce their next news item featuring an exclusive interview with former pacer McGrath when Hogan blurted out, “Glenn McGrath died.”

No doubt, the remark did not go down well with Beretta as well as the other co-host Edwina Bartholomew. While Hogan kept laughing, Bartholomew hurriedly rubbished the comment by saying, “That’s not funny.” Beretta also opposed it and noted, “It’s crazy. I did not get that at all.”

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Viewers slammed new Sunrise host Mylee Hogan for joking cricketer Glenn McGrath died after a segment on TikTok fad where people are told a famous person has died. Just before he appeared on Sunrise.

Well Mylee, your granddad turned into an imbecile – clearly, it’s genetic.